Carinais a cutter-rigged PAE Mason 33. She was designed by
Al Mason and built in
GRP in 1986 by the Ta Shing Boatyard in Taiwan and imported by Pacific Asian Enterprises, Dana
Point, CA USA.
She is PHRF rated at 168. She is hull #16 [of 26 built] and was launched as "Enjay"
and later called "Crackerjack" and "Be My Valentine".
She is US Vessel #914317. We purchased her in
1999 in Fort Lauderdale, FL and moved her overland to the Puget Sound region.
Her homeport is Kingston, WA, USA.

Bacio, our tender, is an 80% scale
version of the nesting dinghy "Chameleon", designed by
Danny Greene of
Bermuda. She was built in our garage of [primarily] 4 mm
okoumé plywood using epoxy and the stitch-and-glue method. Bacio is
propelled by oars and a 3.3 Mercury outboard. Bacio (pronounced Baah
Chee Oh) means "kiss" in Italian.

Carina's Name

Carina is an adjective that means "beautiful" in Italian (if you want
the polite translation). A young woman from Milan told that used as a
noun, for a "sweetheart", that it means the woman is, perhaps, "saucy".

The equivalent word in Spanish is Cariña; e.g. cariña mia.

Carina is also a constellation of the "Argo Navis" group in the southern hemisphere. In
this context, Carina means "keel". The constellation Carina includes the
navigational star, Canopus. For
constellation information, click here.

There is also a nebula named Carina that is 7500 light years from earth and
hosts brilliant stars that emanate energy equivalent to hundreds of thousands
of our sun.